Because someone enliven the atmosphere, eating a hot pot meal is not embarrassing.
Halfway through the meal, Zhou Yizhi got up to add seasonings, Lin Jiayu also stood up, and went to change the dipping plate beside her.
The two said something.
The distance was too far, Xue Xi couldn't know what the two said, only that they were standing in front of the glass shelf, the boy turned his back to him, and Zhou Yizhi laughed at Yanyan.
It was very hot in the hot pot restaurant, Zhou Yizhi took off his coat, and he only wore a black turtleneck sweater underneath, which made a small section of his skin fair.
She looked up at the boy and smiled again.
Xue Xi frowned.
Zhou Yizhi turned her head to look at her brother, but the moment her eyes fell, his brother was completely focused on eating the food on the plate. The warm mist rising from the hot pot covered his handsome profile, making it difficult for people to see his expression clearly.
Zhou Yizhi quickly walked back with Lin Jiayu.
Xue Xi lowered his eyes, and the shadows under his eyebrows looked a bit gloomy.
After the hot pot was finished, the rain had stopped, so Zhou Yizhi asked the driver to stop the car at the parking lot, went down and walked home to digest food.
The leaves of the sycamore trees along the road on the left side of the ramp have fallen all over the place, and some remnants remain bleak in winter, but some places have already sprouted buds, as if spring is coming.
Zhou Yizhi's neck was buried in the scarf, and Xue Xi walked beside her.
The street lamps illuminated the figures of the two of them. The girl was slender, and the boy was long. Passing by street lamps, they were long and short.
"Is the hot pot delicious?" Xue Xi asked suddenly.
He breathed out a cloud of white mist slightly.
Zhou Yizhi stared at his shadow on the ground, thinking, come on, is my brother going to ask what she and Lin Jiayu said in front of the shelf.
She didn't know why she was a little excited, tried her best to hold back, and said casually: "It's pretty good, I especially like the prepared dipping sauce."
Xue Xi was silent for a while.
Zhou Yizhi's fingers curled up slightly in the pockets of his down jacket, his heart beating like a drum.
But just when she thought her brother was going to say something, Xue Xi paused, looked at her, and said, "If you like, you can still eat in the future, but the frequency should not be too much, and the food at home will be cleaner and more hygienic."
That's it? Zhou Yizhi almost spit out his heart.
She did not give up and said: "Brother, what do you think of Lin Jiayu?"
She turned her head and stared at Xue Xi with a full smile.
"How about what?"
"He is not from our school, but his grades are very good, and he seems to be in the top of their school. I think it may be helpful for the college entrance examination to communicate with other high schools about the scope of the exam, so I invite him to come home on weekends to review his homework. God , and he is much more handsome than Cong You, he simply stepped on my aesthetics of boys."
After Zhou Yizhi finished speaking, he waited for his brother's reaction.
But my brother had already walked outside the fence, stretched out his fingers that were a little white from the cold wind, pulled the fence away, and beckoned her to go in.
Zhou Yizhi couldn't help repeating again: "Is it okay to let him come over on weekends?"
The elder brother glanced at her, lowered his eyelashes, and paused: "Oh."
"It's cold outside, come in quickly." He motioned to her again.
Zhou Yizhi: ...
I said a lot and even praised others, so you just "oh"? ! What does "oh" mean? Are you happy or unhappy? ! Zhou Yizhi was frantic, and couldn't help staring at the young man beside him carefully.
By this time, he had reached the steps in front of the villa.
The elder brother was carrying the schoolbags of the two of them, and his face was expressionless. Seeing her look over, he asked her to enter the door quickly.
Zhou Yizhi really had nothing to do, so she walked in quickly, because she couldn't get the answer she wanted, she felt chilly, kicked off her shoes, kicked them here and there, and went into the kitchen to pour juice.
Xue Xi followed her into the door, leaned over and picked up her shoes that had flown far away, and put them on the edge of the entrance.
He changed his shoes and went in, threw two schoolbags on the sofa, and listened to her talking to Aunt He in the kitchen, saying that a friend was coming over the weekend, in a cheerful and expectant tone. There was no expression on his face, and he walked upstairs, his back looked very bored.
On the weekend, Lin Jiayu came as scheduled. The housekeeper and Aunt He rarely saw Zhou Yizhi bring friends to the villa, so they were naturally very happy, and they cleaned up a lot of fruits to treat them.
Zhou Yizhi gave a brief introduction, and asked Lin Jiayu to enter the room with him with his schoolbag in his arms. Lin Jiayu also greeted Xue Xi with a smile. Xue Xi looked normal.
After entering the room, Zhou Yizhi closed the door, put two chairs in front of the desk, spread a lot of information books on the desk, and sat down in front of the desk with Lin Jiayu.
After sitting down, Zhou Yizhi stuffed a pen into Lin Jiayu's hand, spread out a piece of draft paper in front of him, and whispered to him, "Pretend to be giving a lecture."
Lin Jiayu also lowered his voice and said, "But I see that your brother didn't respond just now."
"Don't worry about it, just cooperate." Zhou Yizhi buried his head on the table and quickly wrote a few questions on the blank paper, in order to make the play more realistic.
In fact, last time at the hot pot restaurant Zhou Yizhi told Lin Jiayu that he had someone he liked very frankly. The two stood in front of the glass shelf for a long while. Lin Jiayu looked a little disappointed at first, but fortunately, Zhou Yizhi's words were very In time, it's easy to take back the goodwill you had for beautiful girls in your teenage years, as long as you don't cross the line.
But then his disappointment turned into surprise. What Zhou Yizhi liked was her brother who lived with her, but it didn't matter if he wasn't his biological brother.
Instead, it was Lin Jiayu who offered to help Zhou Yizhi try it out. As the saying goes, there are three things that are most difficult to hide, sneezing, coughing, and liking. If that tall, silent boy also likes Zhou Yizhi, he can't hide it at all.
Zhou Yizhi waited a little impatiently, and looked up at the door of the door from time to time.
Lin Jiayu suggested to her: "Open the tablet."
Zhou Yizhi: "?"
Lin Jiayu said: "Find a comedy and watch it."
And Xue Xi, who was standing in the kitchen pouring the juice, was also a little anxious. His absent-mindedness almost caused the juice to overflow. He looked up to the second floor, and Zhou Yizhi and the boy were laughing happily from the second floor. looking at what.
Aunt He reassured: "The little boy looked quite upright just now, but will the young lady's puppy love affect her studies?"
Xue Xi lowered his eyes and collected his thoughts.
Zhou Yizhi and Lin Jiayu were far away from each other, and while doing homework and watching a video, they suddenly heard someone coming upstairs, and the two hurriedly pulled their chairs closer.
The door was pushed open.
Xue Xi saw that the two were very close, they were completely happy boys and girls, they seemed to be immersed in sharing some happy things, and they didn't notice that the door was pushed open at all.
He stared at Lin Jiayu's head, feeling a strong feeling of being taken away.
Suppressing the possessive desire in his heart, he walked over and gently placed two glasses of juice on the table.
"What are you looking at?" he asked.
Lin Jiayu hurriedly asked embarrassingly: "Brother, did you disturb the people downstairs?"
"No." Xue Xi said, "It doesn't matter."
Zhou Yizhi looked at him with one hand in his hand, and said with a smile, "Brother, I'm not thirsty."
"Drink when you're thirsty." Xue Xi nodded, glanced at the drafts and papers on the two's desk, turned and went out.
The door was closed softly.
Zhou Yizhi looked at the fruit juice and was about to say something. After a few minutes, the door was knocked lightly again. Zhou Yizhi smiled and said, his brother walked in again. He came over with a bag of snacks and handed it to Zhou Yizhi. , said: "Watching the video, you will want to eat something, eat slowly."
Zhou Yizhi took the snacks and said happily, "Thank you brother!"
Xue Xi nodded, turned and left.
Lin Jiayu suddenly whispered: "Why do I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles?"
Zhou Yizhi asked in a low voice, "Do you think it's because he likes me, or is it purely because of his desire to protect his sister?"
Lin Jiayu said: "If you treat my sister, you should enter the door no more than three times. Now you have entered twice, you can take a look—"
Before he could finish speaking, the door was knocked lightly again.
Zhou Yizhi could hardly restrain the joy on her face, and the corners of her mouth were almost grinning to the back of her ears. She coughed in a low voice, pretending to be nonchalant and doing the questions lazily, and said, "Are you brother again, come in."
Xue Xi held two packs of potato chips in his hand, walked over and put them on the table, and said, "Your favorite has just been dropped."
Zhou Yizhi touched his chin and looked at him with a smile.
Xue Xi paused, then glanced at the chairs of Zhou Yizhi and Lin Jiayu, the two chairs were very close, Lin Jiayu's knee was about to touch Zhou Yizhi's, his eyelids twitched slightly.
Five minutes later, Xue Xi brought up another kind of juice that Aunt He squeezed by herself.
When he was placed on the table for two, he quietly and lightly swept Lin Jiayu's chair aside with his knee.
The two were at a safe distance.
Xue Xi turned around and went out.
Zhou Yizhi looked at his brother's back, holding back his laughter so that he couldn't bear it.
She couldn't say that she was 100% sure now, but she was at least 80% sure. At this time, her brother in his teenage years already liked her somewhat. The so-called possessiveness, tsk tsk tsk.
Zhou Yizhi's cheeks suddenly became hot, and he couldn't help covering his face with his cold hands. The next second——
Brother is here again.
He delivered the hand warmer just in time.
After Xue Xi delivered the things, he quickly left the room.
He didn't think he acted too abruptly.
Zhou Yizhi in the room couldn't hold back his excitement, and said to Lin Jiayu, "How many times has my brother come? Seven times?"
"No, he has come up five times in half an hour." Lin Jiayu raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, and said, "If I stay any longer, he should come up for the sixth time soon."
I didn't expect that I just planned to chase a girl, but I didn't catch up, and I was forced to eat a bowl of dog food.
Lin Jiayu decided to kick over the bowl of dog food. He packed his schoolbag and planned to leave. He said to Zhou Yizhi, "See you in cram school."
"Let's go now?" Zhou Yizhi smiled and walked out of the room to see him off.
As soon as the two reached the stairs, they saw Xue Xi who was going upstairs.
Lin Jiayu turned his head and mouthed to Zhou Yizhi: Look, the sixth time.
Zhou Yizhi smiled at Xue Xi: "Brother, Lin Jiayu has something to do at the moment, so he has to go first, I'll go out and see him off."
Xue Xi nodded, and turned around to watch the two of them bouncing down the stairs. After leaving the villa, Zhou Yizhi's face was flushed, as if a little excited, and his steps were brisk and bright. Joyful, she kept sending Lin Jiayu to the fence, jumped up with joy, and even said "yeah".
Xue Xi: ...
Do you like this boy so much
Rarely have I seen her so happy.
Xue Xi looked down at the hot tea he was holding, pursed his lips lightly, and remained silent.
He went downstairs, turned and walked towards the kitchen.
Zhou Yizhi can almost confirm that her brother likes her, her heart is pounding, and her heart is pounding, but she turns around and walks to the villa, only to see her brother standing in front of the kitchen sink washing glasses. There was no expression on his face, because there was no light in the kitchen, so it looked a bit dim, but his expression seemed to have a strong and gloomy atmosphere.
My brother was washing the cup alone, looking a little sad.